Senior Product Software Engineer Golang

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Senior Product Software Engineer - Golang

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Job Description:

Technology is at the heart of Disneys past present and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers product developers designers technologists data scientists and more all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disneys media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products enhance storytelling and drive velocity innovation and scalability for our are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Companys media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we think youd love working here:

• Building the future of Disneys media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media advertising and distribution businesses for years to come.
• Reach Scale & Impact: More than ever Disneys technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans connections with the companys brands and stories. Disney. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC Newsand many more. These products and brands and the unmatched stories storytellers and events they carry matter to millions of people globally.
• Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering media engineering quality assurance engineering behind personalization commerce lifecycle and identity.

The News Distribution Platform team is responsible for building the data pipelines and core distribution services that deliver trusted journalism and breaking news experiences to millions of guests across ABC News Good Morning America and local television stations in eight major markets including Los Angeles and New York. Our services enable real-time publishing syndication and distribution of content across web mobile and connected TV platforms.

We operate systems that sit in the critical path of the News organization where performance scalability and reliability are paramountespecially during high-profile live events and breaking news moments. Our mission is to ensure seamless resilient and low-latency content delivery at scale while continuously modernizing and evolving our platform.

As a Senior Product Software Engineer you will play a key role in shaping the technical direction of the News Distribution Platform. You will lead the design and delivery of scalable backend services influence architectural decisions and partner across product design and engineering teams to power exceptional guest experiences. You will be expected to operate with a high degree of ownership and accountability raise the engineering bar and proactively drive improvements that enhance reliability performance and developer effectiveness.

Responsibilities:

• Own complex technical initiatives end-to-end from technical design through production deployment and operational excellence.
• Set the architectural direction of backend distribution APIs and services to ensure high availability resiliency and low latency at scale.
• Partner with product editorial and engineering stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Strategically prioritize initiatives and technical workstreams to deliver the highest-impact and most time-sensitive outcomes while proactively identifying communicating and mitigating risks to ensure successful execution.
• Champion engineering best practices across code quality testing CI/CD observability and incident response.
• Set standards for operational excellence including monitoring alerting on-call processes and post-incident analysis.
• Perform thorough code reviews and uphold a high standard of technical rigor and maintainability.
• Mentor and coach engineers fostering a culture of ownership collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Drive performance optimization initiatives across services caching layers and data stores.
• Contribute to technical documentation and promote knowledge sharing across teams.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Software Electrical or Electronics Engineering or comparable field of study and/or equivalent work experience.
• 5 years of experience building and operating highly available distributed backend systems in production environments.
• Strong experience designing and developing large-scale backend services using Golang (preferred) and/or Java.
• Experience deploying and scaling services within cloud infrastructure preferably AWS.
• Deep understanding of caching technologies (such as Redis Memcached or similar).
• Proven leadership coaching and mentoring skills with the ability to inspire and empower a team towards achieving business goals.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive detail-oriented approach.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and source control systems (e.g. Git Gitlab Jenkins).
• Experience with observability tools for metrics logging and monitoring (e.g. Datadog Grafana).
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments.
• Strong communication skills and a commitment to collaboration in a fast-paced guest-focused environment.

The hiring range for this position in California is $144100.00 to $193200.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidates geographic region job-related knowledge skills and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package in addition to the full range of medical financial and/or other benefits dependent on the level and position offered.

Job Posting Segment:

Product Engineering

Job Posting Primary Business:

PE - Streaming Backend

Primary Job Posting Category:

Product Software Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City State Region Postal Code:

Glendale CA USA

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Required Experience:

Senior IC